Timeline for Is ServerFault doomed? Not if we all vote more!
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| Jul 16, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | Rob Moir | but that does not prevent them being in charge of some poor company's IT. -- true, and equally the cure for being inexperienced and out of their depth is not to have us pander to their inabilities, either. Closing/Holding a seriously flawed question until it's fixed and then reopening it is the right way to deal with those questions. | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 3:50 | comment | added | BeowulfNode42 | very good question, but that does not prevent them being in charge of some poor company's IT. The reason why is because they know more than the HR recruitment person, which still may not be much. I remember providing support to some poor sys admin guy in the middle of a disaster recovery problem to teach him how to burn an .iso file to disc properly. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 7:05 | comment | added | user9517 | @BeowulfNode42: If people don't know what they're talking about why are they in charge of a companies IT ? | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 3:15 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | By all means, if you see a poorly worded question, edit it first. Any user can propose an edit, and either the original poster, or two other community members, can approve or reject the edit. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 22:37 | comment | added | BeowulfNode42 | The problem is that people asking questions often don't know what they are talking about, and they don't phrase their question very well. It takes someone who knows the answer to what they really mean to word the question properly. This site has the ability for people answering the question to propose changes to the question. Fixing badly worded but valid questions will lead to better content. PS. I've joined a bunch of stackexchange websites, including superuser.com | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 8:14 | comment | added | Sven | If you see a question that really shouldn't have been closed, flag it for mod attention (in really obvious cases only) or bring it up on meta or in chat. Also, if a question is edited after being closed, the question will end up in a review queue where people can decide if it's so much better to warrant reopening it. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 8:08 | comment | added | Sven | When we feel that a question is OT, we close it as fast as possible, to keep the site clean (and prevent answers that might stop the eventual auto-delete). Try to get a feel for what is OT and use it to not answer questions that are likely go get closed fast. If you happen to know more answers for things better asked on Super User as an example, maybe that's a better site for you to participate. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 5:39 | history | answered | BeowulfNode42 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |